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| | PROF. VINCENZO GALASSO INAUGURAL
LECTURE |  | The Political Future of Social Security in Aging Societies Vincenzo Galasso is Full Professor in Economics and Director of CEPRA, at USI. On Thursday, 13 December, at 5.30pm on Lugano Campus he will hold his inaugural lecture during which he will tackle issues such as sustainability of the public pension
system for an aging population. More Information. | | | Awards |  | Alessio Gambi and Mario Bisignani to win ated - ICT Ticino Prize Alessio
Gambi (PhD student of the Faculty of Informatics at USI) and Mario Bisignani (Master's new graduate) were awarded the prize for the project E-Con, an innovative solution designed to take advantage of the opportunities of the current developing technology called Cloud Computing. Congratulations also to Mauro Prevostini, Faculty of Informatics Program Manager, and Antonio Taddeo, Postdoc researcher at ALaRI, for the special mention received by the jury for the project PreDiVine; a bright example of how information technology can be applied to ecology. More Information. | | | TOMORROW ON LUGANO CAMPUS |  | Donating is bloody good USI is hosting a blood drive in cooperation with the Swiss Red Cross Blood Transfusion Centre. The appointment is for tomorrow, Tuesday, 11 December, from 11am to 6pm in the main building entrance. You are eligible to donate blood if you are in good health, weigh more than 50Kg and if you are
18 or older. All you have to do is show up at the welcome desk with a photo ID on a full stomach. The procedure
will last about 45 minutes. More Information. | | | FACULTY OF ECONOMICS GRADUATION CEREMONY |  | 189 new Graduates hailing from 30 different Countries During the ceremony held last week the Faculty awarded 76 Bachelor's degrees and 113 two-year Master's degrees. The ABT Prize established by the Ticino Bankers Association was awarded to Alessandro De Pietro, who achieved the highest average mark in the Bachelor's degree programme, and to Cecilia Aquila for best performance in the Master programme. The Piero Balestra Prize for quantitative subjects, a prize funded by BSI SA, was assigned to Luana Luchetti. Congratulations to all graduates! Names of graduates. | | | ISI AND THE DICASTERO GIOVANI ED EVENTI OF LUGANO |  | The new Series Qui e ora gets underway The lecture open to the public and targeted to the young ones attending vocational rehabilitation, is organised in cooperation with the Dicastero. The series consisting of four
encounters, aims to provide access to the present through the universal language of literature and the arts. This year ISI offers a path of reflection entitled Four Verbs to Decide. The first verb is
To Discern, and the lecture will be held today at 6pm in the Auditorium of Lugano Campus by ISI's lecturer Benedetta Papàsogli. More Information. | | | PINOCCHIO, A PUPPET'S TALE |  | Massimiliano Finazzer Flory presents the Genesis of his Show The theatrical adaptation conceived by Massimiliano Finazzer Flory is the performance chosen in the United States for the Year of Italian Culture, and it will make its debut in Los Angeles in January, 2013. On Tuesday, 18 December at 6pm in the Auditorium of Lugano Campus, the Faculty of Communication Sciences in cooperation with the Dicastero Giovani ed Eventi of Lugano, will host an evening with the author, in which
he will introduce the genesis of his project, as well as the various strategies embraced for the stage adaptation of the text. More Information. | | | EUROPEAN JOURNALISM OBSERVATORY (EJO) |  | Forbidden Voices: women blogger in the firing line for human rights On the occasion of the International Human Rights Day, the EJO in cooperation with Amnesty International, invites the public to the screening of the documentary by Swiss Director Barbara Miller entitled Forbidden Voices – How to start a revolution with a laptop. The screening will be held today at 6pm in Room A11 of Lugano Campus right after an encounter with the director, the Iranian blogger Farnaz Seifi (documentary lead role), Andrea Ostinelli (Spokesperson of Amnesty International Switzerland) and Natascha Fioretti (EJO). More Information. | | | STUDENT ASSOCIATION USI MUN (MODEL UNITED NATIONS) |  | The Multilateral Diplomacy Specialist Daniel Warner at USI On Wednesday, 12 December the Swiss-American expert will hold two lectures in English tackling extremely topical themes: The Obama Campaign and Radical Changes in Electoral
Communication, at 12.30pm and The Changing World and Its Implications for Economics at 2pm. Both lectures will be held in the Auditorium of Lugano Campus. More Information. |
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Monday, 10 December,
1.30pm | Seminar Faculty of Informatics Citations and References as Keys to Relevance Ranking in Interactive IR | Room SI-008, Lugano Campus | Monday, 10 December, 3.30pm | Seminar Faculty of Informatics Formulae for Polyominoes on Twisted Cylinders | Room A23, Lugano Campus | Monday, 10 December, 6pm | Forbidden Voices: women blogger in the firing line for human rights | Room A11, Lugano Campus | Monday, 10 December, 6pm | To Discern
First encounter for the series Qui e Ora | Auditorium, Lugano Campus | Tuesday, 11 December, 11am | Donating is Bloody Good: blood drive at USI | Main Building Entrance,
Lugano Campus | Wednesday, 12 December, 12.30 | The Obama Campaign and Radical Changes in Electoral Communication | Auditorium, Lugano Campus | Wednesday, 12 December, 2pm | The Changing World and Its Implications for Economics | Auditorium, Lugano Campus | Wednesday, 12 December, 6pm | Lectura Dantis with Andrea Celli | Auditorium, Lugano Campus | Thursday, 13 December, 5.30pm | The
Political Future of Social Security in Aging Societies
Professor Vincenzo Galasso Inaugural Lecture | Auditorium, Lugano Campus |
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